You have no idea how frustrating it’s been to sit here in Europe knowing that the Medion UMPC was at CES and no-one had reported on it. Our man Kevin came up trumps at the last minute though and I’m really happy to hear that he liked the keyboard. I’ve had a few discussions with people about the Medion, made cardboard cut-outs and have been trying hard hard hard to get more info out of Medion. Its nice to get so real info.
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Kevin says:
The keys have a nice feel and travel; just like a standard keyboard, only much smaller
If I can confirm somehow that the Vista drivers for the VIA UniChrome integrated GPU support the hardware MPEG2/4/WMV9 decoding then I’m sure that this is going to be a real winner. Can you imagine having this in your sideshow bag and using your sideshow equipped mobile phone to operate it! Great integration.
Price is still unknown. If it sells with the docking station and navigation software I think its worth around 900 Euro. ($1000 approx) based on the ASUS R2H pricing.
Availability in Germany is 1st quarter (latest from Medion) and you’ll probably ony find it online to start with.
Steve.
